Vocabulary
What is the definition of pH?
The measurement of acidity or basicity of a solution
What is happening to the pH of oceans due to ocean acidification?
Getting more acidic
what is the main cause of ocean acidification?
Carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere that dissolves in the ocean.
What is the neutral pH level?
7
What is Ms. Rich's first name
Sarah
What is the definition of Ocean Acidification?
The ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans.
Ocean life that are affected most by ocean acidification.
shellfish
What is the major cause of rising carbon dioxide levels?
The burning of fossil fuels.
What does a higher pH mean? What does a lower pH mean?
A higher pH is more basic and a lower pH is acidic.
Which planet is fourth closest to the sun?
Mars
What is a fossil fuel?
A fuel derived from the remains of ancient plants and animals, formed naturally in Earth's crust
30%
How does deforestation contribute to ocean acidification?
When there are less trees to absorb CO2, there is more CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.
What would you use to determine the pH of a water sample?
What is the smallest unit of matter
Atoms
What are greenhouse gases?
Gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
At what pH would cause fish to die?
4.2
Do volcanoes or people contribute more CO2 to the environment?
People
What are Copepods?
Small animal with carbonate shell like shellfish
What is the name of the element with the symbol Fe
Iron
What is Carbonic Acid?
What compound is decreased because of ocean acidification?
carbonate
What is increasing in the water that causes calcium carbonate shells to begin dissolving?
carbonic acid.
What pH level is the Ocean supposed to be?
~8.1
What is the phase change when a liquid turns into a gas
Evaporation